Katharina Buczek
This 25-year-old woman has birch-apple syndrome, a condition that causes people who are allergic to birch pollen to also be allergic to apples.
Thankfully, her allergy is not severe. However, whenever she eats an apple, she has some extremely uncomfortable and even painful symptoms.
While she was dating her 28-year-old boyfriend, though, he never actually believed that she had an apple allergy.
“He always bought apples, which I was fine with, but I wasn’t okay with him trying to convince me to eat the apples,” she recalled.
Then, one day, her boyfriend stopped trying to convince her and straight-up deceived her by tricking her into eating her allergen.
It all began when he decided to try to “prove her wrong” about her allergy. So, while cooking pancakes one day, he secretly added apple sauce to the batter.
Well, just five minutes after she ate the pancakes, she knew something was wrong.
“I felt a sudden burning sensation in my mouth,” she said, “It was painful and very uncomfortable.”
So, she immediately asked her boyfriend if he had included any apples in their pancakes. At that point, he revealed that he’d added some apple sauce to the mixture.
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